Joseph Allen

1650 - 1727  (76 years)

• Name	Joseph Allen  [1]
  Birth	15 May 1650	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Mar 1727	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2, 5]
  Burial	Elm Street Cemetery, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I39722	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of LD
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Samuel Allen,   b. Abt 1600   d. 5 Aug 1669, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 69 years)
  Mother	Margaret   d. Aft 16 Sep 1669
  Marriage	Abt 1649  [3, 6]
  Family ID	F23335	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruth
  Marriage	30 Jan 1671  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Benjamin Allen,   b. 31 Oct 1679, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 2 Oct 1733, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 53 years)
  Family ID	F23334	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  From The Vinton Memorial (citation details below): His farm lay on the north side of Monatiquot River, not far from where the East Braintree Railroad Depot now is. Some of his land was flowed by the Iron Works Pond, and he sold to John Hubbard, owner of the Iron Works, the privilege of flowing it, Dec. 26, 1682. He was the first Deacon of the Church in the Middle Precinct, Braintree, organized Sept. 10, 1707. He was Cornet of a Troop of Horse; Assessor of Braintree, 1706; Town Treasurer, 1707; Selectman, 1707, 1714, 1715; Representative, 1715.

  
  

• Sources

  [S7108] Daniel Kent, "James Allen of Boston." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 54:350, 1900. [S7107] Find a Grave page for Joseph Allen. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy. [S2945] The Vinton Memorial: Comprising a Genealogy of the Descendants of John Vinton of Lynn by John Adams Vinton. Boston: S. K. Whipple and Company, 1858. [S376] Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy., month and year only. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., says "by 1650".